"Hunt is such a working class club, founded in a small Welsh mining village, although its membership now is by no means limited to miners, with a more ""cosmopolitan"" make up. Oscar Wilde, in his play ""A Woman of No Importance"" (1893), once famously described ""the English country gentleman galloping after a fox"" as ""the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable."" Even before the time of Wilde, much of the criticism of fox hunting was couched in terms of social class. The argument was that while more ""working class"" blood sports such as cock fighting and badger baiting were"
"the foreword of ""Oscar Wilde - l'impertinent absolu"", an exhibition about Oscar Wilde at the Petit Palais, in Paris. From 2011 to 2017, he's been producer of the weekly radioshow ""Secret Professionel"" (Professional Secret) on France Culture. On this programme dedicated to writers but also to conversation, he welcomed all kind of artists, writers and specialists in order to reveal the mysterious ways to creation and art. Each episode was dedicated to an art, a place or an institution (Chambord Castle, collections, museums, schools...). The programme has been ranked by the magazine Télérama among the 10 best radio programmes of"
"is sketching in words, giving impressions in sound and sense to be interpreted by the hearer."" Whistler was well known for his biting wit, especially in exchanges with his friend and rival Oscar Wilde. Both were figures in the Café society of Paris, and they were often the ""talk of the town"". They frequently appeared as caricatures in ""Punch"", to their mutual amusement. On one occasion, young Oscar Wilde attended one of Whistler's dinners, and hearing his host make some brilliant remark, apparently said, ""I wish I'd said that"", to which Whistler riposted, ""You will, Oscar, you will!"" In fact,"
"on 22 January 1882 the Washington Post illustrated the Wild Man of Borneo alongside Oscar Wilde of England and asked 'How far is it from this to this?' "" Though his press reception was hostile, Wilde was well received in diverse settings across America; he drank whiskey with miners in Leadville, Colorado, and was fêted at the most fashionable salons in many cities he visited. His earnings, plus expected income from ""The Duchess of Padua"", allowed him to move to Paris between February and mid-May 1883. While there he met Robert Sherard, whom he entertained constantly. ""We are dining on"
"setting of many of his books. He created and voiced the hardboiled detective parody character Guy Noir on his radio show. Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) was an Irish poet and playwright known for his biting wit. Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927) was an English writer and humorist, best known for the comic travelogue ""Three Men in a Boat"". P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) was one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. Tom Sharpe (1928–2013) was a satirical novelist, best known for his ""Wilt"" series, as well as ""Porterhouse Blue"" and "" Blott on the Landscape"". Alan Coren (1938–2007) could"
"the famous author and poet Oscar Wilde. Queensberry's efforts to end that relationship led to his famous dispute with Wilde. Though he disbelieved in the existences of a God or gods, Queensberry considered homosexuality immoral; that attitude, more common in Victorian times than the present day, prevailed widely enough to lead to Wilde's eventual imprisonment, decline, and fall. Queensberry was a patron of sport and a noted boxing enthusiast. In 1866 he was one of the founders of the Amateur Athletic Club, now the Amateur Athletic Association of England, one of the first groups that did not require amateur athletes"
"nature would be used in blue and white tones on dinnerware and other crockery. The blue and white design was also popular on square porcelain tiles. It is reported that Oscar Wilde used aesthetic decorations during his youth. This aspect of the movement was also satirised by ""Punch"" magazine and in ""Patience"". In 1882 Oscar Wilde visited Canada, where he toured the town of Woodstock, Ontario and gave a lecture on May 29 titled ""The House Beautiful"". This particular lecture featured the early Aesthetic art movement, also known as the ""Ornamental Aesthetic"" art style, where local flora and fauna were"
"L'Hôtel L'Hôtel is a 5-star luxury hotel in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris. When previously known as the Hôtel d'Alsace, Oscar Wilde spent his last days there in room 16, famously remarking ""I am dying beyond my means"". Other former residents include Marlon Brando, actress and singer Mistinguett, and writer Jorge Luis Borges, who said it seemed to have been ""sculpted by a cabinet maker"". The hosting of Borges in this hotel was not by chance: when he was nine, he translated Wilde's ""The Happy Prince"" into Spanish and since then he had become a big fan of his work; Borges wanted to"
"die where the writer of his childhood had also died. L'Hôtel L'Hôtel is a 5-star luxury hotel in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris. When previously known as the Hôtel d'Alsace, Oscar Wilde spent his last days there in room 16, famously remarking ""I am dying beyond my means"". Other former residents include Marlon Brando, actress and singer Mistinguett, and writer Jorge Luis Borges, who said it seemed to have been ""sculpted by a cabinet maker"". The hosting of Borges in this hotel was not by chance: when he was nine, he translated Wilde's ""The Happy Prince"" into Spanish and since then he had"
"Oscar Wilde (play) Oscar Wilde is a 1936 play written by Leslie and Sewell Stokes. It is based on the life of the Irish playwright Oscar Wilde in which Wilde's friend, the controversial author and journalist Frank Harris, appears as a character. The play, which contains much of Wilde's actual writings, starts with Wilde's literary success and his friendship with Lord Alfred Douglas, turns into a courtroom melodrama, and ends with Wilde as a broken alcoholic after two years in prison. Owing to the play's subject matter it was never granted a licence by the Lord Chamberlain and could, therefore,"
"as his leisure pursuits. Early influences were Jack London and H. G. Wells. While he had read the great philosophers, he could also quote from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig. He had read it many times and scrawled annotations on his copy. Grieve was a legendary storyteller with mastery over the nuances of language. While keeping a deadpan expression he could tell excruciatingly funny stories. He was admired as raconteur and after dinner speaker. One of his aphorisms was ""unscrewing the inscrutable"" to describe a deliberate and careful thought process on complex matters. In"
"of Fame. Wilder became well known for owning one of the finest and most extensive art collections in Hollywood, mainly collecting modern art. As he described it in the mid 80s, ""It's a sickness. I don't know how to stop myself. Call it bulimia if you want – or curiosity or passion. I have some Impressionists, some Picassos from every period, some mobiles by Calder. I also collect tiny Japanese trees, glass paperweights and Chinese vases. Name an object and I collect it."" Wilder's artistic ambitions led him to create a series of works of his own. By the early"
"Wilde's quotation: """"A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months!"""" The Philosophy of Dress ""The Philosophy of Dress"" is an essay by Oscar Wilde that appeared in ""The New-York Tribune"" in 1885. The essay remained unknown to scholarship until 2012 when it was rediscovered and published for the first time in book form by Wilde historian John Cooper in ""Oscar Wilde On Dress"" (CSM Press, 2013), making it the only previously unknown work that Wilde intended for publication to have been released since he died in 1900. The"
"Stuart Wilde Stuart Wilde (24 September 1946 – 1 May 2013) was a British writer. Best known for his works on New Age, self-empowerment, and spirituality, he was also a lecturer, teacher, humorist, essayist, scriptwriter, lyricist, and music producer. He was the author of twenty books including the popular series ""The Taos Quintet"": ""Miracles"", ""The Force"", ""Affirmations"", ""The Quickening"", and ""The Trick to Money is Having Some"". Wilde was born in Farnham, England. He has a twin sister, Dee Dee, who became well known in Britain for her weekly appearances on ""Top of the Pops"" with the dance troupe Pan's"
"keep them from finding the body by moving the shreds of paper. In the 1954 memoir by Vyvyan Holland, ""Son of Oscar Wilde,"" he describes playing paper chase at Neuenheim College in Heidelberg, Germany in 1896. ""[W]hen the river was frozen and the snow lay thick upon the ground, so that it was impossible either to row or to play football, paper chases were organised by the master in charge of games. No form of exercise is quite so utterly pointless and boring as a paper chase, and we used to try to slink off and get lost and find"
"works show a subjective and colloquial vision, anti-literary, in which he stresses, nevertheless, an enormous stylistic effort by calling things by their names and ""coming up with the precise adjective"", one of his most persistent literary obsessions. An untiring writer, from his viewpoint life is chaotic, irrational, and unjust, while the longing for equality and revolutions are a delusion that incites worse wrongs than those that it tries to put a stop to. Conservative and rational, he was not inclined to action, but voluptuousness and sensuality: the pleasure of putting the world down on paper. A good conservative, he ate"
"auction. This has made bibliographical (and biographical) studies of unpublished work more difficult since they are widely dispersed, some in private ownership. The largest collection of Wilde's letters, manuscripts, and other material relating to his literary circle are housed at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. A number of Wilde's letters and manuscripts can also be found at The British Library, as well as public and private collections throughout Britain, the United States and France. Oscar Wilde bibliography This is a bibliography of works by Oscar Wilde, a late-Victorian Irish writer. Chiefly remembered today as a playwright, especially for ""The"
"raced in Finland against an Oddie lookalike who won the race. Bill Oddie William Edgar Oddie, (born 7 July 1941) is an English writer, composer, musician, comedian, artist, birder, conservationist, television presenter and actor. He became famous as one of The Goodies. A birder since his childhood in Quinton, Birmingham, Oddie has established a reputation as a naturalist, conservationist, and television presenter on wildlife issues. Some of his books are illustrated with his own paintings and drawings. His wildlife programmes for the BBC include: ""Springwatch/Autumnwatch"", ""How to Watch Wildlife"", ""Wild In Your Garden"", ""Birding with Bill Oddie"", ""Britain Goes Wild"
"and its aftermath—the story of “Woodbine Willie”. The play is based on extensive research into the life of Kennedy, including meetings with members of his family, and a detailed study of the background of the period. He is mentioned in the Divine Comedy song ""Absent Friends"": ""Woodbine Willie couldn't rest until he'd/given every bloke a final smoke/before the killing,"" and in ""Finnegans Wake"" by Irish author James Joyce: ""tsingirillies' zyngarettes, while Woodbine Willie, so popiular with the poppyrossies"" (351). The Unutterable Beauty Reprinted 2017 and Available from Amazon His book of WW1 and Other poems, The Unutterable Beauty, among the"
"Oscar Wilde Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"", and the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death. Wilde's parents were successful Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. Their son became fluent in French and German early in life. At university, Wilde read Greats; he proved himself to be an outstanding classicist, first at Dublin, then at"
"Oscar Wilde enthusiast. Once a columnist in ""The Listener"" and ""The Daily Telegraph"", he now writes a weekly technology column in the Saturday edition of ""The Guardian"". His blog attracted more than 300,000 visitors in its first two weeks. In May 2009, Fry unveiled ""The Dongle of Donald Trefusis"", an audiobook series following Donald Trefusis (a fictional character from Fry's novel ""The Liar"" and from the BBC Radio 4 series ""Loose Ends""), set over 12 episodes. After its release, it reached No. 1 on the UK Album Chart list. Ultimately however only three episodes were released, the rest with the"
"romanticized. Life imitating art Anti-mimesis is a philosophical position that holds the direct opposite of Aristotelian mimesis. Its most notable proponent is Oscar Wilde, who opined in his 1889 essay ""The Decay of Lying"" that, ""Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life"". In the essay, written as a Platonic dialogue, Wilde holds that anti-mimesis ""results not merely from Life's imitative instinct, but from the fact that the self-conscious aim of Life is to find expression, and that Art offers it certain beautiful forms through which it may realise that energy."" What is found in life and nature is"
"the poem was chosen as the epitaph on Wilde's tomb; <poem>And alien tears will fill for him, For his mourners will be outcast men, <poem>So with curious eyes and sick surmise We watched him day by day, And wondered if each one of us Would end the self-same way, For none can tell to what red Hell His sightless soul may stray.</poem> The Ballad of Reading Gaol The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile in Berneval-le-Grand, after his release from Reading Gaol () on 19 May 1897. Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading"
"hard labour, the maximum penalty, and was jailed from 1895 to 1897. During his last year in prison, he wrote ""De Profundis"" (published posthumously in 1905), a long letter which discusses his spiritual journey through his trials, forming a dark counterpoint to his earlier philosophy of pleasure. On his release, he left immediately for France, never to return to Ireland or Britain. There he wrote his last work, ""The Ballad of Reading Gaol"" (1898), a long poem commemorating the harsh rhythms of prison life. He died destitute in Paris at the age of 46. Oscar Wilde was born at 21"
"of trousers, her critics did not: it is distressing to find that sometimes there is more comment about her eccentricities as a person than about the strengths of her writing"". Ellis, on the other hand, writes that ""it is almost impossible to side-step the biographical data that often obscures discussion of her work whether it be the eccentricities of her life -- including her transgender wardrobe and her decision to change her name by deed poll to Oscar Wilde -- or her lonely and somewhat grisly death. As a result, commentators of ""The Pea-Pickers"" have been fascinated with its presentation"
"Oscar Wilde bibliography This is a bibliography of works by Oscar Wilde, a late-Victorian Irish writer. Chiefly remembered today as a playwright, especially for ""The Importance of being Earnest"", and as the author of ""The Picture of Dorian Gray""; Wilde's oeuvre includes criticism, poetry, children's fiction, and a large selection of reviews, lectures and journalism. His private correspondence has also been published. Wilde was declared bankrupt to pay legal costs after his conviction for ""gross indecency"", and his possessions - including manuscripts, letters, books and presentation volumes of all the major literary figures of his day - were sold by"
"of words or, as Wilde had said of the language of Salomé, like the sound of a pearl that falls on a silver basin. Elaborate speech patterns that unfold a double meaning, an allegory."" Christopher S. Nassaar described the play as ""a minor ""jeux d’esprit"""", and places it in context as a ""bridge"" between ""Salome"" and ""The Importance of Being Earnest"". Rudolf Wagner-Régeny set the fragments to music in 1930 for 4 speakers and chamber orchestra. La Sainte Courtisane La Sainte Courtisane (, French for ""The Holy Courtesan"") is an unfinished play by Oscar Wilde written in 1894. The original"
"a decent meal. Huysmans' novel ""À rebours"" (""Against the Grain"" or ""Against Nature"" or ""Wrong Way""; 1884) became his most famous, or notorious. It featured the character of an aesthete, des Esseintes, and decisively broke from Naturalism. It was seen as an example of ""decadent"" literature. The description of des Esseintes' ""alluring liaison"" with a ""cherry-lipped youth"" was believed to have influenced other writers of the decadent movement, including Oscar Wilde. It is now considered an important step in the formation of ""gay literature"". ""À rebours"" gained notoriety as an exhibit in the trials of Oscar Wilde in 1895. The"
"Bill Oddie William Edgar Oddie, (born 7 July 1941) is an English writer, composer, musician, comedian, artist, birder, conservationist, television presenter and actor. He became famous as one of The Goodies. A birder since his childhood in Quinton, Birmingham, Oddie has established a reputation as a naturalist, conservationist, and television presenter on wildlife issues. Some of his books are illustrated with his own paintings and drawings. His wildlife programmes for the BBC include: ""Springwatch/Autumnwatch"", ""How to Watch Wildlife"", ""Wild In Your Garden"", ""Birding with Bill Oddie"", ""Britain Goes Wild with Bill Oddie"" and ""Bill Oddie Goes Wild"". Oddie was born"
"De Profundis (letter) De Profundis (Latin: ""from the depths"") is a letter written by Oscar Wilde during his imprisonment in Reading Gaol, to ""Bosie"" (Lord Alfred Douglas). In its first half Wilde recounts their previous relationship and extravagant lifestyle which eventually led to Wilde's conviction and imprisonment for gross indecency. He indicts both Lord Alfred's vanity and his own weakness in acceding to those wishes. In the second half, Wilde charts his spiritual development in prison and identification with Jesus Christ, whom he characterises as a romantic, individualist artist. The letter began ""Dear Bosie"" and ended ""Your Affectionate Friend"". Wilde"
"words put in the mouths of the hero and his young friend in the story are mostly gathered from the sayings of their originals. Robert Hichens spent nearly a year ""in the company of the men"" and was able to accurately recreate the atmosphere and relationship between Oscar and Bosie. The book was withdrawn from circulation in 1895, but by that time the damage had been done. Wilde soon stood two consecutive trials for gross indecency and was sentenced to two years at hard labour. ""The Green Carnation"" was one of the works used against him by the prosecution. ""The"
"and Oscar Wilde (1854–1900). They brought an oppositional political perspective to their fairy tales and questioned the classical fairy tales and society at large. They reached out to young readers from the upper class, the petite bourgeoisie, and the working class. The literary fairy tale was their political weapon and they preached a message of social liberation. In Zipes words': ""Their art was a subversive symbolic act intended to illuminate concrete utopias waiting to be realized once the authoritarian rule of the Nome King could be overcome"". Rogers points that ""The Emerald City of Oz"" (1910) was supposed to be"
"Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, both filled with wit and brilliant paradoxes, appeared in 1895. They were the last things that Oscar Wilde was to write, before he developed meningitis, and suffered his untimely death.”(Oscar Wilde 951). Other plays include Vera; or, The Nihilists (1880), The Duchess of Padua (1883), A Florentine Tragedy (La Sainte Courtisane 1893). Wilde's work has inspired many other fellow writers. His work has been translated into many languages, and has been on the stage over and over again. Other important writers include John Millington Synge, whose plays include Riders to the Sea and"